The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-10-22

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I lleapocrdt office refused few DAYS
:agoto print circulars for Democratic
mass meeting and the Democrats
were forced to get them printed at
9he REPUBLICAN office. This makes
matters a little awkward for the
present. The Democrat will only
nave one more issue under Mr.. Fay's
management, and it is said the paper
VIII after that be run in the interest
n ~ Rsie party"
We clip the above from the special
Oakland correspondent of the Cum
berland Times of 9th instant.
In the sense in which it is given,
the story that the Democrat office re-
fused to print circulars for a Demo-
cratic mass meeting is simply untrue,
and the writer Could have so inform.
ed himself had he been as anxious to
ascertain the fats as to circulate a
sensational rumor. In our absence,
the single printer in the office was so
busily engaged in getting out the
weeks issue that he could not per-
form the work at the time desired,
and that is all there is of it. The call
for the mass-meeting duly appeared
in the paper.
In the next place, the statement
that the Democrat has heretofore
been The organ of the party is not
true as far as the present manage
ment is concerned. II has always
been staunch champion of the Dem
ocratic party, hut never an organ,
which is but another name for a
machine run in the interests of party
managers instead of party principles.
The statement that the paper will,
under succeeding management, be
run in "the interest of the party"
therefore is rather enigmatical. If
we understand the situation, the pa
per will be run hereafter not in the
interest of the party, but in the in
terest of two or three individuals in
this county who have the Democratic
party by the throat and will run it
for all it's worth to themselves.
Me know precisely what "the in
tereSt OF H. r-.-.s.y .-.o--.4- a. .uO
mouths of some people. Any one
who does not know that it is fidelity
to Goman and strict obedience to his
little sub-bosses in every county, in.
stead of devotion TO the principles of
the Democratic party, that consti.
tutes the test of Democracy, and
makes one eligible to hold Office in
Maryland. is a very poor observer of
current events.
In spite of these facts. however,
we think that we have been as true,
if not a truer Democrat than any of
the owners of the stock of this paper
or the party leaders this officiOus cor
respondent would exalt at our ex-
pense.
Our Democracy will compare fav-
orably. at least, with that of one of
them, who, during the campaign of
Cleveland and Nelson, could find
more time to advocate on the stump
the cause of local option than the
success of the Democratic candidates.
That fact has never affected his stand
ing in the party ring, for he has since
secured the highest Office in Western
Maryland in the federal Gift. and is
now being supported by the liquor
trade which he did his best to ami
hilate.
We also think ourself as orthodox
in our Democracy as another one of
them, who, after taking part in the
primary held prior to the last election
for Mayor and Council of Oakland,
being dissatisfied with the nCmina-
tiops, became the leading candidate
on. an opposition ticket, only, how.
ever, to meet defeat. That fact did
not affect his standing with the ring,
for we next find him representing the
county in the late State Convention,
brought into full fellowship and duly
installed as a leading "boss" in coun-
ty affairs.
We need proceed no farther in this
category TO show where the most con.
sistent party fealty exists. We are
not questioning the right of the
gentlemen referred to, nor many
Others we might mention, to do just
as they have done. Being free Amer
ican citizens, they are entitled to such
privileges, but these things being so,
when we find the superior Democracy
of such people inferentially extolled
and ours rebuked, we must call atten-
tion to facts which go to show the
absurdities and pharisaical pretences
which obtain, if not in the political
world at large, in Maryland politics,
at least.
Who wrote or inspired the letter